United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that a slew of peaceful elections and truces in Africa were signs of a "wind of hope" on the continent. He was speaking on the sidelines of an African Union summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, where heads of state from 55...

 France's Europe minister says she hopes the "message was understood" by Italy after this week's stunning recall of France's ambassador to Italy in the two EU countries' biggest diplomatic dispute since World War II. The main trigger for the crisis appeared to be Italian Deputy Prime...

Greece’s parliament approved protocol for Macedonia to join NATO after ending a 28-year name dispute. The measure was accepted by a 153-140 vote. Ruling Syriza and Potami parties backed the vote while main opposition New Democracy (ND) party and Independent Greeks (ANEL) voted against...

 It’s a proposal that is not even on the table, and reverses Theresa May’s determined position - but EU officials are still urging her to grasp an offer from the Labour opposition to break an impasse over the terms of Britain’s EU exit. The Conservative prime minister gave no sign during...

Former senior bureaucrats and diplomats have warned that Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal provides no clarity on the U.K.’s future relationship with the EU and will only ensure a "never-ending nightmare” for the country. Speaking at a People’s Vote news conference on Friday, Lord...

Syria will continue to be one of the key issues for Germany’s intelligence service BND, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday. Merkel said the Daesh terror group was diminished but not yet defeated at the opening ceremonies of BND headquarters in Berlin “It is rather conducting an...

France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, a proposed deal showed Friday. France had said it would support European Union oversight of new offshore energy pipelines in a move that could...

Britain and the EU agreed Thursday to hold more talks to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit after a "robust" meeting between Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker. Juncker reiterated in a joint statement that the EU-UK divorce agreement struck in November...

France on Thursday recalled ambassador to Italy for consultations in wake of Italian government's meeting with Yellow Vest protestors. "France has been, for several months, the target of repeated, baseless attacks and outrageous statements (by the Italian government)," French Foreign...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project despite growing criticism by the U.S. and European countries. Merkel spoke at a news conference in the Slovakia's capital Bratislava, where she stressed Germany was diversifying its energy supplies...

The U.S. directly violates the UN Charter by threatening Venezuela with military intervention, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday. According to the Article 2, point 4 of the UN Charter, all UN members shall "refrain in their international relations from the...

Two French journalists on Thursday told a terror trial in Brussels that Mehdi Nemmouche, the main defendant in the May 2014 Jewish museum murders, had imprisoned and tortured them in Syria. The journalists who were freed in April 2014 came to the Belgian capital to testify about the...

A British-made rover that will set off for Mars next year in search for signs of life was named Thursday after DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin. UK astronaut Tim Peake revealed the name of the first European scavenger of the Red Planet at the Airbus factory just north of London where it was...

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn met Prime Minister Theresa May last week and has written her a letter putting forward five demands by his Labour Party on the Brexit deal, his party said late on Wednesday. In the letter made public on Wednesday, Corbyn said the Brexit deal must...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was on Thursday re-elected for a four-year term as head of European football's governing body by acclamation. The 51-year-old Slovenian lawyer was the only candidate going forward for election at the UEFA Congress in Rome. Ceferin took over two and a...

Will Brexit really happen on March 29? Unlikely, analysts say, despite Prime Minister Theresa May's insistence that Britain will split from the EU by the looming deadline. With her divorce deal with Brussels currently stuck in the UK parliament and fears of economic chaos in case of a messy...

A war of words began Wednesday after the EU Council President Donald Tusk spoke of a “special place in hell” for “those who promoted Brexit” without a proper plan to deliver it. “It’s a question for Donald Tusk as to whether he considers the use of that sort of language to be helpful - and...

Accusing him of "high treason," right-wing and far-right parties said Wednesday they would protest together for the first time against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over his negotiations with Catalan separatists. Centre-right Ciudadanos, the conservative Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox,...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is to send a delegation to Italy, where the government is one of few European Union countries not to have backed the self-proclaimed interim president. Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he will meet the team on Monday after...

The French foreign ministry on Wednesday denounced as "unacceptable" a meeting between Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and France's "yellow vest" anti-government protesters. "This new provocation is unacceptable between neighbouring countries and partners at the heart of the...